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A WINNER IS NOT ONE WHO NEVER FAILS, BUT ONE

In 1962, four nervous young musicians played their first

record audition for the executives of the Decca recording
Company. The executives were not impressed. While
turning down this group of musicians, one executive said,
"We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the
way out." The group was called The Beatles.

In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book

Modelling Agency told modelling hopeful Norma Jean
Baker, "You'd better learn secretarial work or else get
married." She went on and became Marilyn Monroe.

In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry,

Fired a singer after one performance. He told him, "You
ain't goin' nowhere....son. You ought to go back to drivin' a
truck." He went on to become Elvis Presley.

When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in

1876, it did not ring off the hook with calls from potential
backers. After making a demonstration call, President
Rutherford Hayes said, "That's an amazing invention, but
who would ever want to see one of them?"

When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he tried over

2000 experiments before he got it to work. A young
reporter asked him how it felt to fail so many times. He
said, "I never failed once. I invented the light bulb. It just
happened to be a 2000-step process.
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In the 1940s, another young inventor named Chester
Carlson took his idea to 20 corporations, including some of
the biggest in the country. They all turned him down. In
1947, after 7 long years of rejections, he finally got a tiny
company in Rochester, NY, the Haloid Company, to
purchase the rights to his invention -- an electrostatic
paper-copying process. Haloid became Xerox Corporation.

A little girl - the 20th of 22 children, was born prematurely

and her survival was doubtful. When she was 4 years old,
she contracted double pneumonia and scarlet fever, which
left her with a paralysed left leg. At age 9, she removed the
metal leg brace she had been dependent on and began to
walk without it. By 13 she had developed a rhythmic walk,
which doctors said was a miracle. That same year she
decided to become a runner. She entered a race and
came in last. For the next few years every race she
entered, she came in last. Everyone told her to quit, but
she kept on running. One day she actually won a race; and
then another. From then on she won every race she
entered. Eventually this little girl Wilma Rudolph, went on
to win three Olympic gold medals.

A school teacher scolded a boy for not paying attention to

his mathematics and for not being able to solve simple
problems. She told him that you would not become
anybody in life. The boy was Albert Einstein.

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